Efflex Quotes & Sayings

But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there. — Banana Yoshimoto

Truth can be cruel. Yet it is the only thing of value. — Pierce Brown

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie. — Matt Haig

If you give people peanuts, you get monkeys. So if you want good people that are highly qualified, make the amount of money available for them to go out and do the job. — Lindsay Fox

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you. — Tom Ford

No use kidding herself. This situation with Jarrod was a slippery slope. She'd had plenty of men since Sam, attractive, well endowed, charming in many ways. Jarrod was different, and she needed to figure out why before she found herself in the middle of stupid. She had a business to think of, people who depended on her for their livelihood, even more people present and future who needed the services she offered. It wasn't just a job, damn it, it was a mission. No one should be as out of touch with themselves as thoroughly as she had been. For as long. — Lizzie Ashworth

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius

The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years. — Tillie Olsen

Know the enemy, know yourself and victory is never in doubt, not in a hundred battles. — Sun Tzu

Ever since he'd discovered a secret passageway out of self-alienation, in the form of giving himself pleasure while also receiving it, he'd increasingly resented any activity that took him away from it. — Jonathan Franzen

Man is free at the instant he wants to be. — Voltaire

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change ... — Viktor E. Frankl

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness — Charles Baudelaire

Whoever produced the first draft would need, in all fairness, to put in some of what the other side wanted alongside his own demands. His statement of the other side's wishes then became an irreducible minimum, while all of his own demands were still up for negotiation. So the drafter always started at a disadvantage. Greg vowed to remember never to write the first draft. — Ken Follett

The day will bring some lovely thing. — Grace Noll Crowell